Tsunami...Grief beyond tears

Title: Tsunami...Grief beyond tears - Notes on a humanitarian journey in Aceh, Indonesia and north Malaysia
Author: Mohamed Hatta Shaharom
Publisher: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP)
Price: RM121
No. of Pages: 316
Year: 2006
ISBN9836290605

The seabed earthquake-spawned tsunami of 26 December 2004 devastated coastal settlements of a dozen Indian Ocean rim countries.

In Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (on the Northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatera) alone, this natural catastrophe took lives of about 200,000 Acehnese, displaced another 400,000 of their surviving relatives and neighbours, and made orphans out of the tens of thousands of surviving children. 

This is the writer's personal account of 2004-2005 post-tsunami Pertubuhan Jemaah Islah Malaysia (JIM) and MERCY Malaysia humanitarian missions in north Malaysia and Aceh, Indonesia.

He acknowledges the contributions of anonymous unsung heroes who came to the fore in times of need.

Sorrow Behind The Smiles

Title: Sorrow Behind The Smiles - Notes on a humanitarian journey - disaster relief in Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iran
Author: Mohamed Hatta Shaharom
Publisher: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP)
Price: RM100
No. of Pages: 345
Year: 2006
ISBN9836289003

This is a humanitarian journey through lands that were devastated by the ravage of man-made and natural disasters.

These are personal notes of the writer including two chapters by his wife and son) during relief missions in Iraq (1991), Kosova (1999 & 2000), Afghanistan (2001) and Iran (2004) sponsored by the Islamic Medical Association of Malaysia (IMAM), MERCY Malaysia and anonymous Malaysian donors who came to the fore in times of need.

The Forgotten Jungle Medicine of Taman Negara Pahang

Author: Musa Nordin
Editorial Assistants: Alvin Yeaoh Seng Lee, Lim Sheau Chin, and Chan Mei Ching.
Publisher: Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society (Penang Area Committee)
Price: RM89.10 @ Pekan Buku Universiti Malaya
No. of Pages: 154
Year: 2007
ISBN9789834230302